- Ken Davenport Announces New Rave Theater Festival
THEATERMANIA
Davenport will serve as artistic director of the new summer festival.Read More >
- Rave Theater Festival Announces Participating Shows
BROADWAYWORLD
The brand-new Rave Theater Festival has announced that out of hundreds of applications, 20 shows have been selected for the inaugural festival. Read More >
- Josh Turchin – New York’s Youngest Musical Prodigy
DOWNTOWN MAGAZINE
The month of June is a great time to be a piano in New York City. The Fosun Plaza at 28 Liberty on June 3rd was a hub of vibrant color and music in honor of the unveiling of the fifty Sing for Hope 2019 piano art pieces, and musicians and music-lovers alike attended the event to enjoy and create music. Read More >
- NYC: NOIRTOWN
NO PRESCENIUM
WITNESS immersive returns with a film noir-inspired piece Read More >
- Inaugural Rave Theater Festival Introduces a New Dimension in Theater
FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELER
Spearheaded by Tony Award-winning producer Ken Davenport, the Rave Theater Festival is a platform for emerging artists in the theater. Read More >
- SWEET LORRAINE—NEW PLAY ABOUT FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN LORRAINE HANSBERRY AND JAMES BALDWIN
BLACK STAR NEWS
Rebel Theater Company, in association with the NAACP Brooklyn Branch Equity in the Arts and Culture Committee, and Rave Theater Festival, will present Sweet Lorraine, a new play written by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj and Adam Mace, and conceived and directed by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj. Read More >
- OCEANBORN: The Future of Musical Theatre
ONSTAGE BLOG
If you have yet to hear of Oceanborn, chances are you know someone who has liked their Instagram page or has come across them on YouTube. This new musical, showcased at 54 Below, has a huge fan base online, and will be performed in the upcoming new Off-Broadway Rave Theater Festival. Read More >
- WHATS HAPPENING: Rave Theater Festival
STAGELIGHT MAGAZINE
The 2019 Rave Theater Festival will take place at Teatro SEA and Teatro LaTea Theatres at The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, located at 107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey Streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Read More >
- 2019 Rave Theater Festival Starts this Friday, August 9th and ends Sunday, August 25th.
NJ FOOTLIGHTS
Ken Davenport’s inaugural Rave Theater Festival. As a reminder, the festival begins this Friday, August 9 and runs through Sunday, August 25 at the Clemente Soto Veléz Cultural and Educational Center (107 Suffolk Street) on the Lower East Side. For its introductory year, Rave Theater Festival has selected a diverse roster of plays, musicals, family-friendly shows, and cross-disciplinary projects. Read More >
- VIDEO: Like New Work? Catch a Sneak Peek of the First Annual Rave Theater Festival!
BROADWAYWORLD
As we countdown to the festival’s launch, take a closer look at the participating shows! Read More >
- This musical theater wunderkind is only 12 years old
NY POST
Joshua Turchin’s gotten around. He sang as Flounder in a live performance of “The Little Mermaid” at the Hollywood Bowl, toured with the musical “A Christmas Story” and lent his voice to several animated films. Read More >
- 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend
NY TIMES
This new Lower East Side festival is devoted to emerging playwrights, and you don’t get much more emergent than Joshua Turchin. Read More >
- Rave Theater Festival raises curtain for the first time
PIX 11
It’s opening night of the first ever Rave Theater Festival. 17 days of works in development, and all these actors, playwrights, directors and composers have Broadway dreams. Read More >
- INTERVIEW: Emerging artists receive opportunity with Rave Theater Festival
HOLLYWOOD SOAPBOX
Ken Davenport had an idea, and now it has come to fruition. Davenport’s Rave Theater Festival provides new opportunities to emerging artists in New York City, and now audiences have the chance to experience the fruits of his labor. Read More >
- Rave Theater Festival Review: Noirtown. Immersive Bogarting.
NEW YORK THEATER
It was uncanny how much “Noirtown” made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like “The Maltese Falcon” or “The Big Sleep” – stylish, seductive, tough-talking and unfathomable. For much of the time, I didn’t know what the hell was going on. Read More >
- The Perfect Fit Triumphs at Rave Theater Festival
TIMES SQUARE CHRONICLES
When I was 12 years old and a young performer, I was pretty talented. But I didn’t have the discipline to learn ten musical instruments. Read More >
- Two Teenage Girls Created Viral Viking Musical “Oceanborn” — Now It’s an Off-Broadway Show
TEEN VOGUE
It’s not every day that you find an off-Broadway musical completely created and run by a team of young people—and all under the age of 25, no less. But if you’ve been waiting to see a crew of teens quite literally running the show, you can stop waiting. Read More >
- Review: ‘Waiting for Johnny Depp’ in the Rave Theater Festival
DC METRO THEATER ARTS
This month marks the premiere of the Rave Theater Festival, playing Off-Off-Broadway at The Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center, the former home of FringeNYC. Among the 20 works chosen to perform in its inaugural year is Waiting for Johnny Depp, making its East Coast debut after acclaimed runs in Houston (2015) and LA (2016) – and we couldn’t have asked the festival organizers for a better selection! Read More >
- A New Festival Shows Off Creators Ready to Launch
NY TIMES
If the eclectic clutch of productions in its first week is any indication, the Rave Theater Festival is off to a promising start.Read More >
- “Sweet Lorraine” is stunning theater
AMSTERDAM NEWS
“Sweet Lorraine,” premiering as part of the inaugural RAVE Theatre Festival is a moving, compassionate production, written Adam Mace and “Little Rock” creator Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, and also conceived and directed by Maharaj.Read More >
- Rave Theatre Festival Names Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Play, and More
PLAYBILL
Fancy Maids leads the pack with three wins, while Back, Oceanborn, The Perfect Fit, and The Tycoons! earned two honors each.Read More >
- “NI MI MADRE” AT RAVE THEATER FESTIVAL
ALL ARTS
Written and performed by Arturo Luís Soria, directed by Danilo Gambini, this production tells the story of a larger-than-life Brazilian mother — who swears she would’ve been the “It” thing if it weren’t for Madonna and Meryl Streep — grappling with the secrets that tear her and her son apart, the painful memories of her estranged mother, and the lineage that binds them all together.Read More >
- Rave Theater Festival
TIMEOUT
WInto the vacuum left by the departure of the New York International Fringe Festival steps this ambitious new venture from producer Ken Davenport: a platform for emerging artists that includes 20 productions, each performed five times.Read More >
